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...Churchill's birthday dinner (he was 69) at the British Embassy on Tuesday. Winnie had been planning it all day. He insisted on checking his party's place cards before dressing, then by 8:15 was back, impeccable, in jacket and black tie, nervously puffing a cigar and peering at his watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Big Parade | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Died. Lorenz Hart, 48, lyric half of Rodgers & Hart, habitual hit-tunesmiths; in Manhattan. To Richard Rodgers' swingful songs pint-sized, cigar-mangling Hart had joined his agile verses more than 1,000 times, enlivened more than 25 Broadway shows, including Pol Joey, On Your Toes, The Boys from Syracuse, A Connecticut Yankee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...Cigar, Lady? With all his clowning, Breneman knows that it sometimes pays to be solemn. He is careful to treat old women with respect. He air-expresses an orchid to "the good neighbor of the day"-chosen from nominating letters sent in by listeners. Sometimes he presents an orchid to a member of the audience. Often she is a Midwestern farm woman who has never seen one before, and she frequently accepts it with tears in her eyes. Breneman will offer a grandmother a cigar if he thinks he can get away with it. He constantly asks his audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Breakfast, of Sorts | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Close but no Cigar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLACKOUT MADE MORE REALISTIC BY INCIDENTS | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

Congratulations are in order for Stan Schember, who has recently become the father of a baby girl. It is getting so that cigar smokers can almost assure themselves of a steady supply from new fathers...

Author: By J. D. Wilson, | Title: Navy Supply Corps School | 9/14/1943 | See Source »

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